How interesting that Jimmy Carter’s strong statement that unregenerate southern racism is fueling the "animosity" to Barack Obama was the top story on NBC Nightly News and Hardball. Suddenly there was Carter the prophet again, offering a moral judgment about our politics. Controversial. And I agree.
Remember when Jimmy Carter offered moral pronouncements about the issue that he thinks is the most important problem in our foreign policy, so important that he has written two books about it in the last few years, including Palestine Peace Not Apartheid? Controversial, yes. And Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi condemned him and he was banned from a speaking role at the Democratic convention, and Terry Gross and Wolf Blitzer treated him like a nutter, and no one put him on the national news. That’s about the power of the Israel lobby in our public life.
